Speech Quotes · Page 53

Democrats need to value free speech and we should not be intimidated into giving an inch of it away.

— Claire Fox

Let no one ever think for a moment that national debate means national division.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.

— Oliver Herford

Man must saturate his daily life in truthful speech, virtuous acts and holy thoughts.

— Sathya Sai Baba

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

— Wislawa Szymborska

Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.

— Jennifer Stone

The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

— Confucius

Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.

— Vladimir Lenin

For the Oscars, I had a speech in my hand, and I just knew if I opened the piece of paper, I…

— Susanne Bier

The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having…

— James Russell Lowell

There is price you pay when you want freedom of speech. You must be willing to accept the good the bad and…

— Sunny Leone

In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech…

— Pranab Mukherjee

Michelle Obama gives a speech, and everyone loves it. It's fantastic. They think she's absolutely great. My wife, Melania, gives the exact…

— Donald Trump

College campuses have become fascist colonies of anti-American hate speech, hypersensitivity, speech codes, banded words and prohibited scientific inquiry.

— Ann Coulter

“Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid—necessarily goes to the roots of action? Private prayer is inaudible speech, and…

— George Eliot

OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no…

— Ambrose Bierce

The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do notintrude…

— Willa Cather

You are angry with your neighbor, you despise him, do not like to speak peaceably and lovingly to him, because there is…

— John of Kronstadt

Hypocrisy is wretched because the hypocrite says with his tongue what is not in his heart. He wrongs his tongue and oppresses…

— Hamza Yusuf

I'd done some acting in high school. Then I went to Kenyon College and got thrown in jail and kicked off the…

— Paul Newman

If a picture, which is but a mute representation of an object, can give such pleasure, what cannot letters inspire? They have…

— Heloise

Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.Their tongues are separate in speech,And their natures as well;Their skins are…

— Akhenaton

If our constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded: "But the greatest of these is…

— Robert Kennedy

I suppose no one is as handsome or as beautiful as he or she wishes, or as brilliant in school or as…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

— Salman Rushdie

We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Speech’ is such a thing that if handled [used] correctly, it encompasses all the major vows (mahavrats).”

— Dada Bhagwan

Sound is a subtle form of speech and then more subtle than sound is silence and that's like the realm of being.

— MC Yogi

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

— Max Eastman

I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.

— Greg Abbott

Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink.

— Epictetus

Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.

— Bob Kerrey

Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

— Lord Acton

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

— Samuel Alito

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.

— Adrian Cronauer

I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

— Cyndi Lauper

I believe that through positive thoughts, speech, action and attitudes, we change things for the better.

— Michael Franti

Speech recognition today doesn't really work in noisy environments.

— Andrew Ng

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as…

— John Ruskin